A new study says that a warming climate could cost the country's winter tourism industry as much as $2 billion a season as snowpack dwindles. The report by Protect Our Winters and the Natural Resources Defense Council — dubbed "Winter Tourism In Peril" and releas...

A report by a global warming dooms day pushing organization that gets donations by scaring people into thinking Colorado will not have snow in 5 years is a great non-biased article. The world has not warmed in 15 years. We had an amazing winter in 2010-2011 why did we not hear about the industry booming then? Pure propaganda that is of course thrown out there by our liberal to the core Denver Post. Keep up the good work guys.

llb28 wrote:A report by a global warming dooms day pushing organization that gets donations by scaring people into thinking Colorado will not have snow in 5 years is a great non-biased article. The world has not warmed in 15 years. We had an amazing winter in 2010-2011 why did we not hear about the industry booming then? Pure propaganda that is of course thrown out there by our liberal to the core Denver Post. Keep up the good work guys.

EXACTLY CORRECT!!

I remember MANY years in the 70's and 80's where the snow was pretty bad too. Poor skiing etc... but somehow we got thru it!

I find it interesting that in this article, the images used to illustrate warm weather skiing and lack of snow, were taken in May. The fact that people are able to ski in MAY, in-and-of-itself means the snow is not dismal. It's not like this is what it looked like in February 2012, even through the season was not great. The images seem to be used to sensationalize the article.

Because global warming will result in more precipitation due to increased evaporation from the oceans the question is where it will fall, and how. It is sometimes hypothesized that the Sonoran Desert may migrate north as the globe warms; that is the basis of the idea that there would be reduced precipitation in Colorado. Reliable scientific projections are impossible at this time; although, speculation is interesting.

llb28 wrote:A report by a global warming dooms day pushing organization that gets donations by scaring people into thinking Colorado will not have snow in 5 years is a great non-biased article. The world has not warmed in 15 years. We had an amazing winter in 2010-2011 why did we not hear about the industry booming then? Pure propaganda that is of course thrown out there by our liberal to the core Denver Post. Keep up the good work guys.

You're ridiculous. No room for politics in a discussion that affects everyone

USA Today - This warm week sealed the deal: 2012 will go down as the warmest year in U.S. history.

So far, we've had a national average temperature of 57.1 degrees, 3.3 degrees above the long-term average and a full degree above the previous warmest year, which was 1934.

Yesterday, the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union delivered the annual “Arctic Report Card”. The Report is assembled by more than 140 scientists to assess the state of the North Pole. Here are some of the findings.

In 2012, Greenland saw the warmest summer in 170 years.Permafrost temperatures were the highest on record at eight of 10 observatories in Alaska.Recored Low Ice & Snow in the Arctic97% of the Arctic Ice sheet melted this year.The Arctic ice sheet is melting 5 times faster then in the 90′s

Jack Shephard wrote:I find it interesting that in this article, the images used to illustrate warm weather skiing and lack of snow, were taken in May. The fact that people are able to ski in MAY, in-and-of-itself means the snow is not dismal. It's not like this is what it looked like in February 2012, even through the season was not great. The images seem to be used to sensationalize the article.

considering it is almost mid-November, it is pretty interesting that most of the snow on the open ski areas is all Man Made. (and low levels of snow at that.)

llb28 wrote:A report by a global warming dooms day pushing organization that gets donations by scaring people into thinking Colorado will not have snow in 5 years is a great non-biased article. The world has not warmed in 15 years. We had an amazing winter in 2010-2011 why did we not hear about the industry booming then? Pure propaganda that is of course thrown out there by our liberal to the core Denver Post. Keep up the good work guys.

EXACTLY CORRECT!!

I remember MANY years in the 70's and 80's where the snow was pretty bad too. Poor skiing etc... but somehow we got thru it!

Yeah you're right. It's all just a big scientific conspiracy, just like the whole "the earth is round conspiracy" and the whole "sickness comes from bacteria and viruses instead of demons conspiracy." How dare those evil scientists try to oppose the holy oil and gas industry? It's all Obama's fault. He sent his liberal scientist demons out to keep us from consuming all the resources we want. How dare he? And how dare the DP publish such blasphemy? We should all protest this pagan journalism and only fill our minds with the gospel of Fox News.

Don't listen to the mean old trolls. If there is one thing I've learned in my few years of reading the Comments section of the DP, it is that trully, genuinely, haters gonna hate.

Where do you think we and 4 other states get their water? What do you think will happen when there is no longer snow melt to fill the Colorado River, the Rio Grande, the South Platte, and the Arkansas River?

Jack Shephard wrote:I find it interesting that in this article, the images used to illustrate warm weather skiing and lack of snow, were taken in May. The fact that people are able to ski in MAY, in-and-of-itself means the snow is not dismal. It's not like this is what it looked like in February 2012, even through the season was not great. The images seem to be used to sensationalize the article.

considering it is almost mid-November, it is pretty interesting that most of the snow on the open ski areas is all Man Made. (and low levels of snow at that.)

Yes, the snow pack is bad this year. It was really bad last year too. But the point was the photos were from May, and used to sensationalize the article. Snow pack will always look "dismal" in May with people skiing in t-shirts and sunglasses. Why don't they post a picture of the situation in the mountains right now?

Hey Jimmy, that would be a great positive news slant. Many people will benefit from lower heating bills. But, lower heating bills don't translate into thousands of lost jobs in the winter recreational industry, so this is a relevant and important perspective to many people whose livlihoods depend upon good snow conditions.

The sad thing is that our headlines will pale to the ones people on the coasts will be reading and living in the near future as the ice caps continue to melt. I don't care what the reason is why they are melting - they just are and it doesn't matter if you think big business is to blame, God or both. Those headlines will be keeping a count of how many hundreds of thousands of households disappeared under the waves that year, and how many are expected to follow.

So, whether your orientation is to blast the DP as liberal or not, they are reporting observed facts and predictions arising from trends and that is hard to dispute no matter what you think is causing it.

I don't care if you compare this weather year in Colorado to any other year, just take a look at what is happening to the ice caps and you have all the proof you need for now that something is happening and it doesn't look good.

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Jack Shephard wrote:I find it interesting that in this article, the images used to illustrate warm weather skiing and lack of snow, were taken in May. The fact that people are able to ski in MAY, in-and-of-itself means the snow is not dismal. It's not like this is what it looked like in February 2012, even through the season was not great. The images seem to be used to sensationalize the article.

considering it is almost mid-November, it is pretty interesting that most of the snow on the open ski areas is all Man Made. (and low levels of snow at that.)

Yes, the snow pack is bad this year. It was really bad last year too. But the point was the photos were from May, and used to sensationalize the article. Snow pack will always look "dismal" in May with people skiing in t-shirts and sunglasses. Why don't they post a picture of the situation in the mountains right now?